Andy Serkis Talks ‘Extraordinary Challenge’ of Directing The Hobbit

Andy Serkis got a big promotion in The Hobbit films, serving as second unit director. In addition to reprising his role as Gollum, Serkis got behind the camera to help out director Peter Jackson with filming the three movies.

Digital Spy recently caught up with Serkis to talk to him about his first time directing. We hope he continues to do so in the future, and based on his comments it seems like he will.

“It’s an area that I’ve been gradually moving towards over the last two years,” he said. “[Jackson’s] known for a long time I wanted to direct, and I was thrilled to be asked.”

He continued, “It was an extraordinary challenge, 200 days of shooting, masses and masses of really exciting things going on. It was wonderful.”

Hopefully the special features that are inevitably released about The Hobbit will detail which parts of An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again Serkis specifically worked on. Once Serkis has proved himself, maybe Warner Bros. will give him a movie of his own… if he can step away from the motion capture business.